Cub
#9,080 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Cub has been given to 70 babies in the U.S. since 2015. In 2025 it ranked #9,080 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Cub, 2025
1 in 414,000
Cub over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Cub?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,080
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Cub sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cub. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Cubs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Cub was born before 2021 — so the typical Cub is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 52.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 70
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 52.9% of all recorded uses (37).
Is Cub rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +1,023
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +676
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 72.7%
- Peak was 2017 (11)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 51.4% average annual change
Cub around the world
Where Cub ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2018–2025#5,137in 2025
- South Australia1998–1998#534in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Cub by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Cub
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Cub
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.